﻿54 Major Parry's Catalogue 



it accords with Mg. chelifer (var. max.)> Vji't is readily distinguished 

 from this species by the strong and coarsely punctured lateral 

 margins of the elytra. Under the circumstances I have united 

 the Ceylon, Philippine and Bornean insects under the name of 

 Kandiensis, Hope. 



^Gus CHELIFER, M'Leay, Hor. Ent. i. 113. 



A specimen of this insect is in the British Museum, received 

 from Mr. M'Leay, with the habitat of Australia on the label ; I 

 have always had considerable doubt as to the locality, no other 

 recorded specimen from that continent having ever fallen under 

 my notice; and I am now convinced that the habitat given is 

 erroneous, for the insect has recently been received with its various 

 developments by Count Mniszech and myself, both from Cambodia 

 and the Malay Peninsula,* and proves upon comparison to be 

 identical with Mr. M'Leay's species in the British Museum. 



The insect described by Mr. M'Leay evidently represents the 

 var. minor of the species, but specimens of the var. max. have 

 been received from the localities above stated, possessing the 

 tuberculated front to the head as noticed in /Eg. acxminatus (in 

 minor developed specimens this process totally disappears), the 

 mandibles being also armed in their interior with a tooth, but 

 placed invariably slightly above the centre and not near the base 

 as in acum'inatiis ; the sides of the elytra are also apparently 

 smooth, whereas in the var. max. of acuminalus they are strongly 

 punctate. Allusion has been already made {ante, p. 52) to the 

 identity of this species with ^gus cicatricoxus $ of Mr. Thom- 

 son's Collection (olim Dejean), and to the uncertainty, as men- 

 tioned in Dejcan's Catalogue, of Java being its true locality. 



The insect in the Faune de I'lle de Woodlark, p. 27, under the 

 name of yEgiis chelifer ?, M'Leay, probably represents the var. 

 minor cither of A^g. insipidus, Thomson, or of plali/odon, Parry, 

 both species having been recently received rather abundantly 

 from New Guinea and Celebes. 



i^GUS LABiLis, Westw. (PI. XH. fig. 5.) 

 [Dorcus hibilis, Westw. -|- 



iE. latus, dcpressus, niger, capite ct pronoto subopacis, elytris 

 glabris, striato-punctatis ; capite antice in medio emarginato, 



• "Kigidius cornutus, M'Leay, stated to be from Australia, lias been received 

 also from the now mentioned localities. Vide post, p. (i3. 

 t See Dote* ante, p. 17. 



